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Re: QuickSet utility working OK for everyone?
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Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:37:30 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Todd Lehman writes:
> Hiya,
>
> How's LUGNET's little QuickSet utility working out for everyone? Good?
> Bad? So-so? What in tarnation is it? Bueller?
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> According to server logs, the main (big, full-page) DB search box gets used
> about 15 times as often to look up sets.
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> The logs don't tell me, of course, if this is because people simply don't
> know about the little version of the DB or whether they prefer the big one
> and choose not to use the little one, but in any case the ratio is profound.
> I use the little one all the time for most things, and then go from there
> into the big one if I need to see more.
Works great for me. I use it much as you do. I use it for a first referance
and if I need more info I go to the big one.
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> Here's the main launch page:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/quickset/
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> And it can also be reached from most other regular pages using the search box
> at the top and selecting "LEGO Set Reference (Popup)".
Great stuff but I will say that many LUGNET "Features" such as Quickset, FTX,
and Mosaic Maker are not as easily found from either the www.LUGNET.com or
news.LUGNET.com homepages. I see links to Quickset and FTX from the new
homepage but they are sort of buried and Mosaic Maker is no where to be found
on the homepage.
IMHO these features deserve TOP billing as they are 1. terrific resources and
2. physically part of LUGNET. I don't know how you emphasize these great tools
but maybe you should have a page that lists all of the great LUGNET tools that
has a nice big link from the home page. IMHO I think it is a shame that Mosaic
Maker is buried at http://www.lugnet.com/cad/mosaic/ and unless you go to the
CAD page you would never know about it. There should be a nice big link to it
right from the homepage possibly with a small example picture with it.
Anyway thats my 2 cents. You need to highlight features of LUGNET more and
make them shout at people. Don't bury them 3 levels deep or make someone read
two or three paragraphs of text before they can find them.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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| (...) Great! That's how it's intended to work. :) (...) Hmm, there are actually two QuickSet links on the homepage, and a third way to activate it via the search form. Maybe it's obscured by its sounding a bit like some kind of liquid glue. :) BTW, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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